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This month's gold treasure chest resource is a set of Phase 5b Instruction Cube Games (1 for each week of Phase 5b using my Phase 5 MT plan). The children roll cubes to make silly/sensible instructions/commands-

Do the children you work with find it difficult to recognise capital letters?

Although not specificially mentioned in LaS, the phonics lesson would be a good time to teach capital letters for both reading and writing. I would suggest starting at Phase 3, but other practitioners may wish to start at Phase 2.

This month's gold treasure chest resource is a set of capital letter grapheme cards which can be used in various ways during the phonics lesson to help children to be able to recognise capital letters, so they can blend words containing them, as well as helping them learn how to use them for spelling.

This half term's videos are all about mnemonics to help children spell tricky words and homophones. Each video will give you an idea you can use at school if you are a teacher/TA or at home if you are a parent. You can view the videos on my Facebook Page

I am now able to provide in school training in Dorset and Hampshire as well as continuing my training in Berks, Bucks, Surrey, Oxfordshire and South/West/North London. Contact me if you would like further details.

This month's gold treasure chest resource is a set of 10 Suffix Find a Partner Games, each focusing on a different suffix and the related spelling rules. This is a great moving around game to use in your phonics lessons.